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The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]
Read full articleBase says AI agents are using wallets, stablecoins, and x402 to pay for internet services as agentic commerce expands. The post Base says agent payments reached 3.1 million x402 transactions in 30 days appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of “AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, […]
As AI agents become more numerous and more communicative, keeping track of where to find them is becoming increasingly important. Numerous proprietary agent registries are on the market, but the Linux Foundation suggests we simply extend the distributed, open Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure we already have. The foundation is now inviting contributions to the DNS-AID project, a standard way for AI agents to discover, verify, and communicate with one another over DNS that requires no new infrastructure. It enables agents and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to use DNS as a global, vendor-neutral directory. While many details remain to be worked out, the proposal suggests domain owners create a new well-known address that can provide a starting point for agents looking for one another: _index._agents.{domain}. This approach ensures that agent discovery remains scalable, secure, and compatible with the protocols that underly the internet, the Linux Foundation said. “AI agents a
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FinchTrade is positioning margin based OTC settlement as a capital efficient alternative for payment firms handling stablecoin flows. The post Crypto OTC desks in 2026: From execution venue to credit provider appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
While bitcoin sellers drove the price below $74,000 on Thursday, a fresh wave of sleeping coins sprang to life, transferring 665 BTC that had remained untouched for more than a decade. In total, 665 BTC worth just over $48 million, moved during the past day, all originating from wallets created in 2014 and 2015. Long-Idle […]
The post Canada annualized Gross Domestic Product contracts 0.1% in Q1 appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was unchanged on a quarterly basis in the first quarter of 2026 following the 0.2% contraction recorded in the last quarter of 2025, Statistics Canada reported on Friday. In this period, the annualized GDP declined by 0.1%, falling short of the market expectation for a growth of 1.5%. On a monthly basis, the GDP contracted by 0.1% in March. Market reaction USD/CAD edged higher with the immediate reaction to disappointing GDP data and was last seen rising 0.25% on the day at 1.3820. GDP FAQs A country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measures the rate of growth of its economy over a given period of time, usually a quarter. The most reliable figures are those that compare GDP to the previous quarter e.g Q2 of 2023 vs Q1 of 2023, or to the same period in the previous year, e.g Q2 of 2023 vs Q2 of 2022. Annualized quarterly GDP figures extrapolate
